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On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though you wouldn’t have known it from reading the brief, oversimplified opinion. In Trinity Lutheran Church of…

For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the past 15 years has been issued on June 26. From the decimation…

Hand to God, every mainstream commentator on religion and politics has a liturgy—a catechism—they must learn before they are allowed to publish in a big-ticket outlet. It goes like this: Q: Who…

The anti-equality World Congress of Families will hold its fourth Caribbean regional summit on June 29 and 30 in St. John’s Antigua, with speakers from US Religious Right groups Focus on the Family…

The 2013 death of 83-year-old Duquesne University adjunct Margaret Mary Vojtko helped open up a national debate about the precarious lives of the estimated seven hundred thousand college faculty in…

The audience in the cramped cafe included two demographics rarely seen together: evangelicals and lesbians. I was among the latter, having made the uncomfortable transition from the former a decade…

For someone professing to be convinced that “God” placed Donald J. Trump in the office of the U.S. presidency and implying that Russia had nothing to do with it, evangelical heavyweight Franklin…

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled today that Mississippi’s sweeping anti-LGBT “religious freedom” law known as HB 1523 can take effect, overturning an…

It’s unlikely that many of the Catholic bishops who voted last week to make permanent their (formerly) Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty saw the irony when several of their fellow prelates sharply…

To call Aziz Ansari’s Netflix series Master of None “peak TV” is not to do it justice. It has a lightness to it that makes it a relief from the overwrought self-importance of shows that define the…